CSTO CRRF complex drills take place in Karaganda rgn (PHOTO)
The event is attended by the Deputy Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Valery Semerikov, First Deputy Minister of Defense - Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Colonel-General Saken Zhasuzakov, and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Lieutenant-General Alexander Studenikin. The aim of the drills, which consist of three stages, is to practice the use of military contingents and formations of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Force in the Central Asian region. The CSTO, which is comprised of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, regularly holds military drills on the territories of its member states, and the current exercise, codenamed Interaction 2014, is held at the Spassk military range in the Karaganda Region, in central Kazakhstan. Along with 3,000 personnel, the drills also involve 200 military vehicles and some 30 combat jets and helicopters.
Organization of informational and psychological confrontation, cyber security of own information systems, technical impact on the data objects of an enemy have being practiced there. The drills will last until August 22.
